Program participants were sorted into services based on education and college readiness at enrollment. Adults with a high school diploma or GED whose Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) reflected a 9th-to-12th-grade score equivalency received case management and college readiness training in preparation for subsequent enrollment in occupational training. If participants with a high-school-level TABE score were not enrolled in school and did not have a high school diploma or GED, they received accelerated GED preparation and occupational training simultaneously. Out-of-school participants with TABE scores below a high school level and without a GED or high school diploma received adult basic literacy education and English-as-a-second-language services alongside case management.
The primary population was adults with low job skills and low college readiness who were living along the U.S. Texas–Mexico border.
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